ATHENS, Alabama —
Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely is seeking clues in a burglary
that turned his own office into a crime scene.

Someone stole the sheriff's handgun and cash from his office while he recovered from knee surgery.

The News Courier reports Blakely is offering a reward for information leading to an arrest.

Blakely
said the Sig model 1911 .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol was stolen
from atop his desk at the Limestone County Sheriff's Department on Elm
Street in Athens. The sheriff says he left the gun on his desk when he
went to the hospital.

He said someone also stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the safe in his office.

His department is interviewing inmates who serve as trustees and who clean the offices.